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sira_underhill ([personal profile] janetlin) wrote2008-09-14 10:03 pm
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Hey, watchers of Dr. Who and Torchwood:

What is up with Jack's "voice of a nightingale" thing in regards to Martha? Is that an allusion or an inside joke I've somehow never managed to catch despite watching both shows?
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's never been explicitly explained since he first referred to her that way in "Reset", but I'm assuming it's a reference to her telling her story as she walked the Earth during the YTNW. Nightingales are reputed to have beautiful voices, and Martha is a beautiful woman (at least to some of us, and certainly to Jack) whose voice saved the Earth from the Master. Therefore he affectionately teases her by calling her "the voice of a nightingale" in Reset, The Stolen Earth and Lost Souls.
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[identity profile] 4ensicbones.livejournal.com 2008-09-15 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
This? Should totally be canon.
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2008-09-16 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Hee, thanks!

[identity profile] janetlin.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Very well, this is now my personal canon!
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[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2008-09-20 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Heh!
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